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A towering effort
Patrick Vogel never saw the World Trade Center outside of photographs, and he didn't know anyone who died on9/11. But as far as the Long Beach artist is concerned, he has a connection — a slight, geographical one — to the terrorist attacks...
Tags: Artists, Fine Artists, Boeing Co., Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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World View: An emotional return to the twin towers
All I could hear was the sound of perpetually falling water. I stood recently in the shadow of the Freedom Tower under construction, and faced one of the two parapets with names of the dead etched in bronze. Not even the rattle of jackhammers in the...Tags: Kurt Russell, Sri Lanka, Crime, Law and Justice, Air Transportation Industry, Travel
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Frontier Airlines hijacking
FrameworkA Los Angeles Police Department bomb disposal squad member, wearing protective clothing, watches hijacked Frontier Airlines Boeing 737 jetliner parked at LAX.... -
Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body rejected for burial in Cambridge
This post has been updated. See below for details.There may be no place in the earth for Tamerlan Tsarnaev. One of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has been dead more than two weeks after a dramatic showdown with police in Watertown, Mass., on April 19. But officials and his family still don't...Tags: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Timothy McVeigh
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Possible 9/11 plane landing gear part found in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — A rusted 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Boeing Co., Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Transportation Industry, National Transportation Safety Board
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Boston bombings: Boston suspects had 'spontaneous' bomb plan for New York
The two brothers suspected of carrying out last week's deadly Boston Marathon bombing decided, after the FBI released photos of them, to drive to Manhattan and detonate more explosives in Times Square, New York City officials said on Thursday. Their plan...Tags: Mike J. Rogers, Police Investigations, Parties and Movements, Times Square, Sports
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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Social Issues, Human Mishaps, Butter, Peanut Butter
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Mail Call - Feb. 25
“Here are the facts: Germany was completely disarmed in 1919 as punishment for World War I. No manufacture, sales, possession of guns or ammunition were permitted. By 1928, Germany had rearmed, with registration required. By 1938, the only changes...Tags: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Brownsville, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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Families of Flight 93 names new president
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Families of Flight 93 charity has named Gordon Felt to be its new president. The groups say in a release Monday that Felt, of Remsen, New York, succeeds Patrick White, who will become vice president. The Families of Flight 93...Tags: Washington, DC, Human Interest, United Air Lines
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FBI investigating hijacking hoax involving Alaska Airlines flight
Military jets scrambled Thursday night and escorted a flight from Hawaii to Seattle after receiving a hoax call that there was a hijacker aboard. The FBI interviewed one of the passengers aboard the Alaska Airlines flight from Kona, Hawaii, but no...
Tags: Police Investigations, Stranger Than Fiction, FBI, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors
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Your Benghazi reader
Change of SubjectUPDATED WITH MORE QUOTES The idea that blaming the video meant not acknowledging the attack as an act of terrorism is a false distinction. They're not mutually exclusive. Republicans had convinced themselves otherwise....Kevin Drum To Libyans who... -
Ceremonies, reflection mark 9/11 remembrance
Amid solemn commemorations on Tuesday's 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Barack Obama and other leaders emphasized how America has emerged stronger from the devastation that killed more than 2,900 people and forever changed the...
Tags: Republican Party, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Eric Holder, The Pentagon
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